Synopsis
Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio.
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Cast
- Roberto BenigniPinocchio
- Nicoletta BraschiBlue Fairy
- Mino BelleiMedoro
- Carlo GiuffrèGeppetto
- Peppe BarraThe Talking Cricket
- Franco JavaroneMangiafuoco
- Max CavallariThe Cat
- Bruno ArenaThe Fox
- Corrado PaniGiudice
- Kim Rossi StuartLucignolo
Recommendations
- 40
TV Guide Magazine
There's no getting past the shockingly poorly dubbed voice work of the English speaking cast; Meyer's voice is particularly shrill and grating. - 30
The New York Times
It's an oddity that will be avoided by millions of people, this new Pinocchio. Osama bin Laden could attend a showing in Times Square and be confident of remaining hidden. - 25
New York Daily News
The most bizarre cinematic experience of 2002. So misguided as to be utterly mystifying, this shameless vanity project is almost surreal enough to be entertaining. Almost. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
Big, opulent and frequently wretched, Pinocchio is so bad that its American distributor, Miramax, opened it on Christmas Day with scant advertising and no advance press screening. - 10
The A.V. Club
An unintended gift to midnight-movie programmers and students of the bizarre, Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio could have become a "Howard The Duck" -- or "Battlefield Earth"-like synonym for cinematic miscalculation, were its title not already so familiar. - 10
Village Voice
This faithful, humorless, altogether insufferable (and, by all accounts, hastily dubbed) version of Carlo Collodi's 1883 fairytale about the trouble-causing puppet who longs to be human is the director's lifelong dream. - 10
Chicago Reader
The recut American version is truly awful, but a good 75 percent of the awfulness is attributable to Miramax, the film's distributor. - 0
Entertainment Weekly
Benigni's Pinocchio is meant to be adorable, but he comes off as less an enchanted puppet than as a harmlessly deranged middle-aged man prancing about in the kind of froufrou cream-colored pantsuit that Dinah Shore retired to her back closet in 1977.
